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I'll probably get downvoted for this, but I think counting github stars probably only reflects visibility but not actual usage. To give you an example, cf-ui is

by wyuenho 10y ago

I'll probably get downvoted for this, but I think counting github stars probably only reflects visibility but not actual usage. To give you an example, cf-ui is counted as one of the "best" React UI component out there in bestof.js.org, but this project is not currently meant for general consumption. This fact is reflected in npm stats. I think we as a community should be very vary about these "scorecard" websites and their methodologies. These things tend to be a self-fulfilled prophecy. I'm not sure I want to see a couple of brand name companies start monopolizing our eyeballs and technical conversation. I'm also very vary about people making decisions based on these sites. While not everyone is completely different from others, I'd like people to make their own decisions based on their only thinking process rather than just jumping on the new and shiny from the big names all the time. Not that this appears to be an issue right now, just a few words of caution.

karmelapple 10y ago
Absolutely. Just as a personal anecdote, I use GitHub stars precisely as a way to indicate my curiosity, and not at all for my usage. Repos I rely on get a bookmark in my browser. I would be happy to use a feature that lets me mark repos that are simply interesting to me separately from repos I have a stronger investment in.
soneca 10y ago
Why did you believe your very reasonable comment would probably be downvoted???
- wyuenho 10y ago
  My general pessimistic feeling for how human not learning from the past, but I'm glad I'm wrong now :P
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yonasb 10y ago
Stars are useful to gauge interest. At StackShare, we rank most everything by number of stacks- meaning usage (https://stackshare.io/javascript-ui-libraries https://stackshare.io/javascript-ui-libraries). Worth noting that we just added GitHub stats to OSS pages (not our rankings), mostly because many new tools aren't actually being used in production yet, but there's a lot of interest in them.

by wyuenho 10y ago

karmelapple 10y ago

Absolutely. Just as a personal anecdote, I use GitHub stars precisely as a way to indicate my curiosity, and not at all for my usage. Repos I rely on get a bookmark in my browser. I would be happy to use a feature that lets me mark repos that are simply interesting to me separately from repos I have a stronger investment in.

soneca 10y ago

Why did you believe your very reasonable comment would probably be downvoted???

wyuenho 10y ago
My general pessimistic feeling for how human not learning from the past, but I'm glad I'm wrong now :P
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yonasb 10y ago

Stars are useful to gauge interest. At StackShare, we rank most everything by number of stacks- meaning usage (https://stackshare.io/javascript-ui-libraries https://stackshare.io/javascript-ui-libraries). Worth noting that we just added GitHub stats to OSS pages (not our rankings), mostly because many new tools aren't actually being used in production yet, but there's a lot of interest in them.